2nd round

LeBron is still going 1st

obviously 1st

Bron

Wemby

Melo

Bosh

Wade

In that order

first

Anti Europe Bias makes him drop outside top 5

2nd

I think the fact he is a much better shooter overall than Lebron was when he got drafted, you can’t pass up the size and skill. They’d both have the “he’s still growing” phase but Wemby can anchor a defense himself. I’d take that over Lebron. Although if your Cleveland, you probably can’t take a French guy over a homegrown kid from Akron haha

I mean in a 3 year window (2002,03, 04) there were seven non-Americans picked in the top 15 each year. I think given his hype he would have landed top 5-6 in 03. Can’t imagine Chris Kaman would have outplayed Wemby in workouts, much less Darko and maybe not even Bosh.

Those of you who are not saying one are forgetting something very key:

You’re in 2003, not 2023.

Context matters. Besides 2003 in which Euro Darko went 2 on potential alone, Bosh went 4, and Chris Kaman went 6…

2002: Yao 1, 3 bigs in the top 5 including Tskitishvili (Euro)

2001: 1-4 were all bigs, including Pau (Euro)

2000: 7 of the top 9 and 9/12 had PF or C in their position designation.

Oh, but maybe 2003 was the start of the transition to wings?

2004: Dwight-Emeka 1-2.

2005: Bogut 1.

2006: Bargnani 1. 4/5 top picks were PFs.

2007: Oden-Durant-Horford with 4 more bigs in the top 10 after them.

No.2 as he’s putting up worse stats being a year older.

2nd after LeBron. Yes the hype with LeBron was that insane and he would’ve been considered more of a sure thing than wemby.

Between Kirk Hinrich and TJ Ford

At that time Cleveland is not passing up on Akron born Lebron James no matter what, so Wemby would go 2nd

if it is 2003, he maybe in around 2-5

if lebron comes to 2023, wemby will be 1st